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Re: Split a subversion repo into several git repos

From
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date
Oct 12, 2007, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID
<470FD8AC.5000406@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To
<op.tz28hnd2jwclfx@ichi>
Eivind LM wrote:
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>>
>> git-svn init -t projectA/tags -b projectA/branches \
>>    -T trunk/projectA http://svn.host.com/
>> git fetch
>
> With my paths this translates into
>
>   $ git-svn init -b eivindlm/branches \
>                  -t eivindlm/tags \
>                  -T eivindlm/trunk/src/probesimulator \
>                  file:///svn-repo/
> , which prints the happy message:
>   Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
>
> The next command is unfortunately not as happy:
>   $ git fetch
>   fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>   fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>   Cannot get the repository state from origin
>
> I suppose this is due to my silly svn-repo layout... However, after
> some trial and error it seems like the following command gives me what
> I want (I don't need tags or other branches than main):
Whoops, my mistake.  That should have been "git svn fetch".
Sam.
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Message 11 of 11 in “Split a subversion repo into several git repos”
  1. Eivind LMOct 11, 2007
  2. Patrick DoyleOct 11, 2007
  3. Eivind LMOct 12, 2007
  4. Jonathan del StrotherOct 11, 2007
  5. Patrick DoyleOct 11, 2007
  6. Karl HasselströmOct 11, 2007
  7. Sam VilainOct 11, 2007
  8. Eivind LMOct 12, 2007
  9. Jonathan del StrotherOct 12, 2007
  10. Eivind LMOct 12, 2007
  11. Sam VilainOct 12, 2007

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